Concise History of Indian Literature

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna (Hrsg.):
A Concise History of Indian Literature in English / ed. by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. - Basingstoke [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. - 468 S.
ISBN 978-0-230-22852-8
£ 60,00

Beschreibung
The first history of Indian literature in English to cover the two hundred years from Raja Rammohan Ray to Arundhati Roy, this book takes up the canonical poets, novelists, and dramatists, as well as many unjustly forgotten figures, who have made significant contributions to the evolution of Indian literature in English. The book's twenty-four chapters are written by some of the finest scholars in the field and look at key authors such as Kipling, Tagore, R.K. Narayan, Nirad C. Chaudhuri and V.S Naipaul, groups of authors such as the Dutt family of nineteenth-century Calcutta and the Indian diasporic writers of the twentieth century, and genres such as the Indian novel and post-Independence poetry. Together these essays form an indispensable guide for students and scholars, tracing the development of Indian literature in English since the beginning of the nineteenth century. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Editor's Preface
1. A. K.Mehrotra: Introduction
2. B. C.Robertson: The English Writings of Raja Rammohan Ray
3. S. K.Mukherji: The Hindu College: Henry Derozio and Michael Madhusudan Dutt
4. R. Chaudhuri : The Dutt Family Album: And Toru Dutt
5. M. Couto: Rudyard Kipling
6. S. Chandra: Two Faces of Prose: Behramji Malabari and Govardhanram Tripathi
7. M. Mukherjee: The Beginnings of the Indian Novel
8. A. Chaudhuri: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore
9. P. Heehs: Sri Aurobindo
10. R. S. Ash: Two Early-Twentieth-Century Women Writers: Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu
11. S. Khilnani: Gandhi and Nehru: The Uses of English
12. R. Guha: Verrier Elwin
13. L. Gandhi: Novelists of the 1930s and 1940s
14. P. Mishra: R.K. Narayan
15. E. Desouza: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
16. S. A. Narayan & J. Mee: Novelists of the 1950s and 1960s
17. S. Kaul: On V.S. Naipaul on India
18. R. S. Patke: Poetry Since Independence
19. S. Mishra: From Sugar to Masala: Writing by the Indian Diaspora
20. A. K. Mehrotra: Looking for A.K. Ramanujan
21. A. Dingwaney: Salman Rushdie
22. J. Mee: After Midnight: The Novel in the 1980s and 1990s
23. S. Gokhale: The Dramatists
24. M. Rangarajan: Five Nature Writers: Jim Corbett, Kenneth Anderson, Sálim Ali, Kailash Sankhala, and M. Krishnan
25. A. Sattar: Translations into English
Note on Contributors
Further Reading
Index

Herausgeber
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is The Transfiguring Places (1998). His edited books include The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets (1992) and The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad (2007). The Absent Traveller: Prākrit Love Poetry from the Gāthāsaptaśatī of Sātavāhana Hāla (1991), a volume of translations, has recently been reprinted.

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